DAY 1       JANUARY 23 (FRIDAY)

Time Program Venue
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome Remarks & Group Photo LT3, UG/F, Lee Shau Kee Building
(LSK LT3)
10:00 – 12:00 Opening Keynote
Seeing, Reading, and Hearing Images: Expanding Distant Viewing Through Multimodal AI

Professor Lauren Tilton, E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities, University of Richmond (USA)
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Foyer, UG/F, LSK
12:30 – 14:00 Workshop 1
Text and Data Mining for Chinese Historical Texts

Dr Donald Sturgeon, Durham University
User Education Room, G/F, University Library (UER)
13:00 – 14:00

Poster Presentations

    • Application of Blockchain and AI Technologies for Sustainable Development
      Professor Ben Radhakrishnan, National University, San Diego
    • Benchmarking Narrative Comprehension in Long-Context Large Language Models
      Tong Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    • Chinese Engineers Relational Database 2.0: A New Interface for Data Exploration
      Dr Thorben Pelzer, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • Co-Reading: A Human–AI Co-Reader Media System for Poetry–Emotion–Color
      Professor Byungjun Kim, The Academy of Korean Studies
      Iro Lim, The Academy of Korean Studies
    • Deterritorialized Ocularcentrism: AI-Generated Imagery’s Haptic Potential
      Mingyang Li, Zhujiang College, South China Agricultural University
      Yanlei Li, Hong Kong Baptist University
    • From Poetic Image to Algorithmic Vision: Re-Imaginations of Sima Guang’s Dule Yuan
      Xiao Yang, Tsinghua University
    • Gender Representation in Strong Female Protagonist Chinese Online Novels
      Mozhuo Chen, University of Oxford
    • Glitch Revelations: AI, Trash Aesthetics, and the Dionysian Data-Self
      Yanlei Li, Hong Kong Baptist University
    • GraphRAG for Plant Knowledge Extraction from Chinese Local Gazetteers
      Dr Hui Li, Nanjing Agricultural University
    • Hybrid Augmentation: Building a RAG-CAG Framework to Support Linguistic Research
      Ke Wang, Zhejiang University
      Rui SHANG, Westlake University
    • LLMs and the Translation of Culturally Loaded Words in Dream of the Red Chamber
      Jiayuan Di, East China University of Science and Technology
    • QL Study of Translator Identity Using LLM: Chinese Ver of My Brilliant Friend
      Shiyi Xu, Guangxi Normal University
    • Seeing with Algorithms: AI Visualizations of Chinese Classical Poetry
      Xiyu Mao, The University of Hong Kong
    • Where’s the Fun?: Proposing for a digital repository for Cold War Hong Kong toys
      Connor Ka Hei Au Yeung, Purdue University
Outside Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library (DSLab)
14:00 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
Organised Panel 1: Enabling a Paradigm Shift: Intersections of Creativity, Epistemology, and Licensing Authority
Dr Elaine Chan, Hong Kong Chu Hai College
Dr Lung Ghi Roger Lin, Hong Kong Chu Hai College
Dr Tin Yung Alex Au, Hong Kong Design Institute
DSLab, G/F, UL
Organised Panel 2: Reappraising Transformations in Modern China through the Lens of AI
Dr Cécile ARMAND, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Professor Christian Henriot, Aix-Marseille University
Dr Thorben Pelzer, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
UER, G/F, UL
Organised Panel 3: Extended Distant Reading: Translation, Multimodality, and Augmented Reading
Professor Jenny CY Kwok, Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr Luis Damián Moreno García, Hong Kong Baptist University
Professor Yao Song, Hong Kong Baptist University
VR Zone, LG/F, UL

Short Papers 1: LLMs as Critical Instruments in DH
Moderator: Professor Andrew Piper

  • Literary Canons and Algorithmic Framing: Analysis of LLM-Generated Paratexts
    Dr MengYuan Zhou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Algorithmic Critique: How Large Language Models Deploy Theories
    Donghoon Jung, Graduate School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences
    Dr Seohyon Jung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Extending Scholarly Databases with LLMs: Opportunities and Challenges
    Dr Donald Sturgeon, Durham University
  • LLM-Mediated Knowledge Graphs for Distant Reading of Urban Perception
    Ms Shao Tong, Tianjin University; Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Gender Across Models, Across Languages: An East Asian Exploration
    Jiwoo Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Inferring Bon-gwan (本貫) in the Late Joseon Dynasty: Digital Humanities with AI
    Hana Lee, Pusan National University
LSK LT3
16:00 – 16:30 Poster Presentation & Tea Break Outside DSLab, G/F, UL
16:30 – 18:30 Parallel Sessions

Short Papers 2: Graph Reasoning, Provenance & Retrieval in Humanities Data
Moderator: Professor David Huddart

  • CRMdig-based Provenance Ontology for Korean Cultural Heritage 3D Data
    Ms Ara Jo, The Academy of Korean Studies
  • Reconstruction of Traditional Chinese Maritime Routes by GIS and KG Approach
    Hongpeng Luo, Tianjin University
    Ms Kailu Lin, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
    Professor Jie He, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
  • The Anatomy of a Villain: Distant Reading and Graph RAG for VillainScope
    Gayeon Kim, The Academy of Korean Studies
  • Transnational Negotiation Networks and the Dual Roles of Hong Merchants in Qing
    Liqiao Ni, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
    Xinbei Song, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
DSLab, G/F, UL

Short Papers 3: Seeing at Scale: Vision Methods in DH
Moderator: Professor Lauren Tilton

  • Reimagining Reality: Text-to-Image AI and Evolving Practice of Hong Kong Artists
    Chun Fan Wong, Lingnan University
  • The Face in the Cloud: AI Assetization, Shifting Perceptions, and Ethics of Facial Imagery
    Ms Nan Wang, Xiamen University
  • Distant Viewing Inequality: A Digital Humanities Study of Joseon Conscription
    Kunha Kim, Sogang University
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Visualize AI’s Leapfrog in Post-socialist China
    Ye Zhao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
UER, G/F, UL

Short Papers 4: Image Synthesis, Immersion & Multimodality
Moderator: Prof. Simon Mahony

  • Lianhuanhua in the Age of AI: Multimodality, Distant Perceiving, and the Ethics
    Aijia Zhang, Heidelberg University
  • Trends in Digital Humanities: Pandemic and Distant Perceiving in the Age of AI
    Richard Chijioke Ukwunna, Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education
  • 3D Mixed and Augmented Reality (MR/AR) with AI in Archaeological Fieldwork
    Hayk Azizbekyan, The University of Hong Kong & Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia
    Professor Peter J Cobb, The University of Hong Kong
VR Zone, LG/F, UL

Short Papers 5: Computational Literary Studies across Languages
Moderator: Professor Coupe Christophe Dominique Michel

  • A Corpus Stylistic Approach to Emotive Language in Joyce’s Dubliners
    Dr He Huang, Beijing Normal University
  • Reimaging Authorship in Contemporary Chinese Poetry
    Ms Zhijing Wang, Nanyang Technological University
  • Russophone Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry: A Case of Distant Reading
    Ivan Alekseev, Southwest Jiaotong University
  • Vector Poetics: Parallelism and Cognitive Geometry in Chinese Regulated Verse
    Dr Maciej Kurzynski, Lingnan University
  • Perplexity as a Measure of Cognitive Freedom: Defamiliarization in Modern Chinese
    Dr Maciej Kurzynski, Lingnan University
  • The Event of Autofiction in English
    Dr Jeffrey Clapp, Education University of Hong Kong
LSK LT3
19:00 Official Dinner (by Invitation only)
CUHK Chung Chi College Staff Club Restaurant